{"id":217,"date":"2008-10-03T19:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-11-26T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T18:13:02","slug":"friday-3rd-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 3rd October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/031008.jpg\" alt=\"Stanta Brigida, near Amer\" \/>There is always a period of adjustment when we change countries. We need to do what the Spanish call &#8216;change the chip&#8217;. One of the things which always takes a few days is to re-learn to interpret the forecast. In the UK it&#8217;s invariably worse than the forecast. Here it is almost always better. Even on a bad forecast, there is some part of the day, or some place where it is flyable. The same happened today. The forecast was for rain. There were a few spits this morning, but then the sun came out and it was lovely. I checked the 11.30am update and they were forecasting strong winds at the coast (perfect for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&#038;mylong=2.612554&#038;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>), but big cloud development in that area.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff is still not 100%, and I decided too late that I wanted to go out and fly. By the time we got to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&#038;mylong=2.612554&#038;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a> the clouds were already looking ominous and were causing gusts on launch. Had we been there an hour or two before it would have been a nice day. We read our books for a while, had a beer and a snooze. As we set off down the hill we could hear claps of thunder and see sheets of rain in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>At home,\u00a0 it was a cloudless sky. What a difference 14 miles can make!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/031008\/index.html\"> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is always a period of adjustment when we change countries. We need to do what the Spanish call &#8216;change the chip&#8217;. One of the things which always takes a few days is to re-learn to interpret the forecast. In the UK it&#8217;s invariably worse than the forecast. Here it is almost always better. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}